Following is a table of United States presidential elections in North Dakota, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1889, North Dakota has participated in every U.S. presidential election.
Quick Facts Number of elections, Voted Democratic ...
Presidential elections in North Dakota![Map of the United States with North Dakota highlighted](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/North_Dakota_in_United_States.svg/220px-North_Dakota_in_United_States.svg.png) |
Number of elections | 33 |
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Voted Democratic | 5 |
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Voted Republican | 27 |
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Voted other | 1[lower-alpha 1] |
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Voted for winning candidate | 22 |
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Voted for losing candidate | 11 |
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Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
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Year |
Winner (nationally) |
Votes |
Percent |
Runner-up (nationally) |
Votes |
Percent |
Other national candidates[lower-alpha 2] |
Votes |
Percent |
Electoral Votes |
Notes |
2020[1] | Joe Biden | 114,902 | 31.76 | Donald Trump | 235,595 | 65.11 | — | | | 3 | |
2016[2] | Donald Trump[lower-alpha 3] | 216,794 | 62.96 | Hillary Clinton | 93,758 | 27.23 | __ |
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2012[3] | Barack Obama | 124,827 | 38.69 | Mitt Romney | 188,163 | 58.32 | — |
| | 3 | |
2008[4] | Barack Obama | 141,278 | 44.62 | John McCain | 168,601 | 53.25 | — |
| | 3 | |
2004[5] | George W. Bush | 196,651 | 62.86 | John Kerry | 111,052 | 35.5 | — |
| | 3 | |
2000[6] | George W. Bush[lower-alpha 3] | 174,852 | 60.66 | Al Gore | 95,284 | 33.06 | — |
| | 3 | |
1996[7] | Bill Clinton | 106,905 | 40.13 | Bob Dole | 125,050 | 46.94 | Ross Perot | 32,515 | 12.2 | 3 | |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 99,168 | 32.18 | George H. W. Bush | 136,244 | 44.22 | Ross Perot | 71,084 | 23.07 | 3 | |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 166,559 | 56.03 | Michael Dukakis | 127,739 | 42.97 | — |
| | 3 | |
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 200,336 | 64.84 | Walter Mondale | 104,429 | 33.8 | — |
| | 3 | |
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 193,695 | 64.23 | Jimmy Carter | 79,189 | 26.26 | John B. Anderson | 23,640 | 7.84 | 3 | |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 136,078 | 45.80 | Gerald Ford | 153,470 | 51.66 | — |
| | 3 | |
1972 | Richard Nixon | 174,109 | 62.07 | George McGovern | 100,384 | 35.79 | — |
| | 3 | |
1968 | Richard Nixon | 138,669 | 55.94 | Hubert Humphrey | 94,769 | 38.23 | George Wallace | 14,244 | 5.75 | 4 | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 149,784 | 57.97 | Barry Goldwater | 108,207 | 41.88 | — |
| | 4 | |
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 123,963 | 44.52 | Richard Nixon | 154,310 | 55.42 | — |
| | 4 | |
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 156,766 | 61.72 | Adlai Stevenson II | 96,742 | 38.09 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors[lower-alpha 4] | 483 | 0.19 | 4 | |
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 191,712 | 70.97 | Adlai Stevenson II | 76,694 | 28.39 | — |
| | 4 | |
1948 | Harry S. Truman | 95,812 | 43.41 | Thomas E. Dewey | 115,139 | 52.17 | Strom Thurmond | 374 | 0.17 | 4 | |
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 100,144 | 45.48 | Thomas E. Dewey | 118,535 | 53.84 | — |
| | 4 | |
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 124,036 | 44.18 | Wendell Willkie | 154,590 | 55.06 | — |
| | 4 | |
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 163,148 | 59.60 | Alf Landon | 72,751 | 26.58 | — |
| | 4 | |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 178,350 | 69.59 | Herbert Hoover | 71,772 | 28 | — |
| | 4 | |
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 131,441 | 54.80 | Al Smith | 106,648 | 44.46 | — |
| | 5 | |
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 94,931 | 47.68 | John W. Davis | 13,858 | 6.96 | Robert M. La Follette | 89,922 | 45.17 | 5 | |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 160,072 | 77.79 | James M. Cox | 37,422 | 18.19 | Parley P. Christensen | — |
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1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 55,206 | 47.84 | Charles E. Hughes | 53,471 | 46.34 | — |
| | 5 | |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 29,555 | 34.14 | Theodore Roosevelt | 25,726 | 29.71 | William H. Taft | 23,090 | 26.67 | 5 | |
1908 | William H. Taft | 57,680 | 61.02 | William Jennings Bryan | 32,885 | 34.79 | — |
| | 4 | |
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 52,595 | 75.12 | Alton B. Parker | 14,273 | 20.39 | — |
| | 4 | |
1900 | William McKinley | 35,898 | 62.12 | William Jennings Bryan | 20,531 | 35.53 | — |
| | 3 | |
1896 | William McKinley | 26,335 | 55.57 | William Jennings Bryan | 20,686 | 43.65 | — |
| | 3 | |
1892 | Grover Cleveland | 0 | 0 | Benjamin Harrison | 17,519 | 48.50 | James B. Weaver | 17,700 | 49.01 | 3 | Electoral vote split three ways, with each candidate getting one electoral vote. |
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For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina